OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends, Volume 2011 Supplement 1: Five Decades at the Heart of Financial Modernisation.This supplement traces the development of the activities of the OECD in the area of financial markets since its beginning, and specifically the work carried out in the Committee on Financial Markets (CMF), created in 1969. Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary

OECD Economics Department Working Papers-1107: OECD Forecasts During and After the Financial Crisis: A Post Mortem-1108:The Prudential Regulation of Financial Institutions: Why Regulatory Responses to the Crisis Might Not Prove Sufficient

Forthcoming -OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Slovak Republic 2012: Book listing
-Financial Education for Youth: The Role of Schools: Book listing
-PISA 2012 Results: Ready to Learn, Volume III: Students' Engagement, Drive and Self-Beliefs. Print edition. Book listing-Lessons from PISA 2012 for the United States: Book listing
-A Skills beyond School Review of Egypt: Book listing

Forthcoming
-Employment and Skills Strategies in the Czech Republic: Book listing
-Employment and Skills Strategies in Northern Ireland: Book listing
-Investing in Youth: Brazil: Book listing
-OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Ireland: Book listing
-Ageing and Employment Policies: Netherlands 2014: Working Better with Age: Book listing

ENERGY

For World Water Day, IEA shares in-depth analysis of energy sector’s use.Chapter from World Energy Outlook 2012 says energy accounts for 15% of global water usage, and will consume ever more through 2035. Chapter

Forthcoming
-OECD Integrity Review of Tunisia´s Audit System:Managing Risk in Public Institutions: Book listing-Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections: Book listing-The Governance of Regulators: Book listing-OECD Regulatory Compliance Cost Assessment Guidance: Book listing-Chile's Supreme Audit Institution: Leveraging Strategic Agility and Public Trust within Government: Book listing-Women, Government and Policy Making in OECD Countries: Fostering Diversity for Inclusive Growth: Book listing

Is your CEO really worth it?
Who’d be a CEO? Back in the days when the legendary Jack Welch was leading General Electric – and increasing its market value by more than athird of a trillion dollars – chief executive officers were the heroes of capitalism. These days, they seem as likely to show up on top-ten lists of failure. Read more

IPCC and climate change risks: what would you do?The latest Climate Change Report from the IPCC argues that human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems. The report identifies eight major risks with high confidence and this blog post allows the reader to vote on how to deal with each of them. Read more

The automotive sector: steering beyond the crisisThe car industry has taken a dent since the recession started to bite in 2008, but even before then, new patterns were emerging that would reshape the sector for a long time to come. OECD Observer article

Tax: Addressing the hybridsThe global campaign will continue in 2014 to improve international tax rules, many of which were first designed over a century ago, and to make them fit for the era of globalisation and new technologies. In 2013 policy attention was focused on the problem of profit shifting by global firms and its negative effects on tax bases, with the OECD issuing its widely publicised 15-point Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) to leaders at the G20 summit in September. A key action area in the plan concerns crossborder tax hybrid schemes, with an OECD report due to address the problem in 2014. How do they work? OECD Observer article

The ups and downs of GDPEconomic policy can achieve results only if policy makers – and the voters to whom they are accountable – know what is happening to the economy. Understanding the economy as a whole depends on the available statistics. So economic statistics shape policy and events, and the most closely watched measure is the growth of gross domestic product (GDP). OECD Yearbook article

A costly gender gapEveryone needs to be sufficiently financially literate to take informed decisions for themselves and their families as to their savings, investments, pensions and more. But in many countries, women have lower financial knowledge than men, and are less confident in their financial knowledge and skills. OECD Observer article

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